The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-13

present Mayor. The Aldermen were all on
the straight temperance ticket, as was the
Mayor and Marshal The entire ticket Is
composed of young men.
Dr. King Wylly, on the part of the
Orange County Board of Health, has had
placed perfect Gordon Of guards along the
line of Hillsborough county, and it is next
to impossible for any one to pass through.
Guards are on duty day and night. DR..
Wylly says he has done everything that
human ingenuity can devise TO protect the
county; and if Orlando is well cleaned and
kept so, there is nothing to fear.
A daughter of E. S. Sevey, of Orlando,
aged II years, who was bitten Sunday night
by a very singular looking hairy worm, came
near losing her life. The worm was on her
neck, and on attempting to take it off it
stung her in several places by burying its
claws in the skin. In very short time her
face and neck were badly swollen, showing
evidence of severe poisoning, accompanied
with great pain. DIR. Lawrence was called
in and Monday she was considered out of
| danger.
/ H. A. Fuller, of Pensacola, received
| telegram from Tampa Monday, announcing
that the steamer Cumberland had been in
tercepted and her cargo discharged at
| point below that city. In the event of
continuance of the epidemic at Tampa, pro-
viding Manatee will not do for the lines
southern terminus, which is probable, Mr..
Fuller contemplateS running the steamer
between Pensacola and st. Andrews Bay,
carrying passengers and freight TO and fro,
arriving at and departing from each place
] on alternate DAYS.
Charles H. Pratt, city editor of the Pa
| latka Herald, met with a very painful &C
cident Monday that came near ending in his
death. He was engaged in feeding job on
quarto medium Gordon press. The engine
had full head Of steam on and was turn
ing very rapidly. In attempting TO throw
the belt of leading from the main shaft to
the press with his hand one of the iron
hooks which connects the two ends Of the
belt caught in a heavy plain gold ring on
the third finger of the left hand and jerked
him three feet over the press, tearing the
| flesh from the finger, dislocating one joint
and breaking another Fortunately, the
bed and platen were closed together Had
they not been, he would have been crushed
into jelly.
Some one started a rumor at Orlando
Monday that there was a case of yellow
fever within the corporation of Orlando.
The Record took the trouble to trace it to
its source and discovered that there was no
foundation for the report The facts in the
case are as follows: Early Monday morning
Officer Jenkins of the police force, reported
to the Mayor that there was a man lying
sick at the house of Mr.. Yates, about mile
west of town, and that he had better inves-
tigate the matter. The Mayor Immediately,
in company with DR.. r. NJ. Dickinson, went
to the Yates house and interviewed the
man, who had Just returned from fishing in a
lake near the house. He had been there
since Monday of last week, having arrived
that day from st. Cloud, just below Kis-
simmee. He has had a slight attack of
bilious remittent fever, and had so far re-
covered as to be able to 90 fishing Monday.
DR.. Dickinson stated to a representative of
the Record that the case did not present the
slightest evidence of yellow fever, and that
it was simply an exceedingly mild form of
bilious remittent fever, caused by the mans
imprudent exposure Of himself
At Ocala the excitement over the fever is
over, everybody is calm, collected and re-
served. E. A. Meador, who is roadnaster
for the Florida Railway and Navigation
Company, was telling to a fever excited
crowd, Sunday morning, near Wright &
Frazier's drug store, of his experience at
| Plant City. He was awakened out of a
sound slumber Saturday morning at his
hotel by some one in the next room vomit-
| ing violently He got frightened, got up,
| got an engineer and with an engine went
/ five miles out of town and slept under a tree.
He thought the party had yellow fever.
The next day he came to Ocala. Some one
| that he came from Tampa. Mr. Meador
was put under arrest at his boarding house
till a straight story was heard when he was
| liberated. He got it into his head that Will
Hopkins, the Florida Railway and Naviga-
| ton Company's ticket agent at Ocala, put
up the job, and something serious would
have grown out of it, but friends interfered
Some one said Saturday that Ocala had a
| case of yellow jacket. Another party re-
ported it to Gainesville They telegraphed
back for particulars, and when hunted to
its hole, the story was traced to a rich
| cream-colored darkey who had fever, out
of which grew the yellow fever" and great
excitement.
At Dade City at the close of the polls
| Monday night the most intent interest was
manifested as to the result. At shutdown
| the polls were closed and in about twenty
minutes the results were made known-the
dry, majority being 6. The ''drys" chaI-
| lenged number of the votes of
the railroad hands, and one arrest was
made. About dozen will be ar
rested These are principally hands on
| the Orange Belt railroad whom the
| drys claim to be non-residents. Many
negroes were scared from the polls by the
vigorous watch kept by the ''drys." Some
| were not allowed to vote who had not even
been in that precinct but who had come in
| from other precincts and registered. The
| Dade City precinct does not touch the
| Orange Belt. A number of votes will be
| contested by the Prohibitionists. The
''wets' say that they will contest the pre-
cinct as some of their voters were not al
lowed to vote. The returns up to a late
hour Monday night make 1t very doubtful
| as to the status Of the county 1t
| is reported that both sides at San Antonio
| agreed that the non resident, non-taxpaying
negroes should not be allowed to vote. The
"wets'' were little disappointed in receiv-
ing only AZ majority in that precinct. The
report that Riohland went 25 ''wet'' was a
blow to the drys, as they expected the vote
TO balance there. The four precincts not
heard from are on the coast and are small,
but expected to give an almost solid dry
vote On these precincts will hang the
final results. The Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union gave dinner at the polls in
Dade City, and it was generally conceded
that it was its influence that carried the day
in the city.